Song Artists

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This page lists the
artists that have been most successful in the
124
source charts.
Each artist has been listed along with their highest placed song (the
chart details refer to the song not the artist).

Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998 (1936), nuTsie 8 of 1930s, Scrobulate 34 of blues, Acclaimed 224 (1936), RIAA 342, Visconti song of 1936, RYM 3 of 1937, Song of 1937, one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 500

I've noticed that this site isn't updated nearly as frequently as it was a fewyears ago. Is it because it's harder to find new information? When will there
be a new update?

It is much both harder to find new data (that looks trustworthy and fills a gap)
and the data we have is, we feel, pretty good, there is less need to expand (except
for the most recent music which we are less interested in anyway).

However the site still gets updated fairly frequently (we aim for every two
weeks or so "real jobs" permitting). These days most effort is in tracking
down and fixing data issues in the existing data (for example one user, called
Chet, has done a great job finding hundreds of needed fixes over the last few
months).

We don't feel the need to release new major versions because we've now tuned the algorithm
to deliver results that seem "about right". Any adjustments would probably introduce
more issues than they would solve. The complete data set gets reprocessed
even for minor releases, of course.

15 Jan 2015

Removed Song Artist Page Response

I must have mistaken Janis Joplin for Janis Ian, like you said. Did she ever
have an album page?

Thank you for providing me that list. I've used about 75 of your song artist
pages and have accumulated a total of approximately 100,000 views from them.

I'm glad you agree that she is an exceptional artist. Do you have any listingsfor her song "Will You Dance?"? It peaked at number 40 on the Japanese Oricon
chart. I know this only makes it a very minor hit, but don't you use the
Oricon chart as one of your sources for your listings?

Janis Ian never had a song or album page

10 Jan 2015

Removed Song Artist Pages

Why are song artist pages removed if they aren't +one of the top 1000 artists?I'm sure theres a valid reason why, but I was hoping to do a "Top 10 Most
Successful Janis Ian Songs" video for my YouTube channel, but saw she no
longer had a page. Would it be possible to have a page that lists the song and
album artists who once had a page but not anymore? Why can't theyre page be
viewed as perhaps an "honorable mention" sort of manner? Thank you.

There are a number of reasons why we limit the publication to 1,000 artists in
each category, these are explained in one of the FAQs

The brilliant Janis Ian is well below our criteria, we only have 6 songs by her in our charts (in order):
"At Seventeen" (1975), "Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)" (1967), "Fly Too High" (1980),
"The Other Side of the Sun" (1980), "Under The Covers" (1981) and "Stars" (1975)

She's a perfect example of when some of the best music is not to be found in the charts.

However, our records indicate that we never generated a page for Janis Ian's songs.
If we ever did it was a mistake that was corrected. Are you sure you don't
mean Janis Joplin (who we did once list)?

25 Mar 2014

neil diamond

wont set me free

10 Feb 2014

Bing Crosby

It is now clear that Bing Crosby was the man.

Well he was well before my time, it appears from my research that Bing has more number One/top thirty
hit's that anyone else.

In fact no one even comes close, in addition to no one being Number One for two decades in a row.

Mr. B. Cosby accomplished the above during the Great Depression and World War Two, which is quite remarkable.

I might add that Bing was a hugely popular radio/movie star +being Number Box office from '45-'49 as well as receiving academy awards.
While, I love Elvis, the Beatles, & Michael Jackson the facts speak for themselves that B. Crosby is the MAN.

That is certainly a valid position to hold.

Our estimate is that any one of Bing Crosby, The Beatles, Elvis, Paul Whiteman, Frank Sinatra or Glenn Miller
could feasibly be claimed to be the most successful musical acts of the 20th century, depending on how you combine
the evidence. For most approaches the top act works out as Bing Crosby, The Beatles or Elvis, but the others
turn up for some metrics.

Our calculation is that if Madonna continues to be successful for another decade or so she would join that
elite list.

It depends on how you estimate success, but our numbers indicate that Bing Crosby is certainly one
of the top 3.

27 Jul 2012

# 95 Jimmie Rodgers

Jimmie Rodgers from the 20s & 30s and Jimmie Rodgers from the 50s & 60s are listed as if they were one artist. They really should be listed separately.

That is not possible on this site, we can't automatically distinguish
between two acts with the same name (or even with names that some people
think are the same). If you consider the career of Enrico Caruso you
will see what the issue is. We have 31,462 different artists
listed with hit songs, fixing them by hand is not possible
(we don't charge for all this data remember).

The top of the page explains that in fact there are three
artists of this name (not just the two more famous ones that
you mention). We assume that interested users will be able to
do the extra research themselves.

7 Jun 2012

I'm Saving My Money To Buy You A Rainbow

The song you are looking for is "Rainbow" by Russ Hamilton. Released on Kapp 184 in 1957, "Rainbow" entered the Top 40 on May 8, reached #4 and
remained in the top 40 for 17 weeks. . George Hamilton IV also released a
version in 1961, it did not chart.

Thanks for the input

17 Apr 2012

Looking for an artist

Could anyone tell me anything about a Daryl Petty who was with Joe Franklin and the hi-liters around 1958-59, He wrote A MILLION MILES TO NOWHERE. He
also recorded with RCA- ONE LOVE FOREVER and GOODNIGHT MR. BLUES which he also
wrote.

13 Apr 2012

Song title - I'm saving my money to buy you a rainbow

Do you know the singer of "I'm saving my money to buy you a rainbow". I believe it is from the 50s

16 Mar 2012

Bill Lawrence

Hi

I would be very grateful if you could help me or direct me to someone who
might be able to supply some information. I am trying to find out about the
career of the 1940s singer Bill Lawrence, what hits he had, the orchestras he
recorded with and what became of him. I have not been able to find anything
on him anywhere.

My interest in him is because he recorded "If You Ever fall In Love Again" in
1949 on the RCA Victor label. That song was written by my father, Dick
Farrelly (Irish songwriter/policeman) and I have the original 78 record and
the sheet music with Bill Lawrence on the cover. The song was also recorded by
Guy Lombardo and Anne Shelton in the UK.

I would also love to find out how successful the song was for him.

This is a link for my Dad:- +http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Farrelly

Kind regards,
Gerard Farrelly

We only have one entry for Bill Lawrence, his 1949 song "Jealous Heart"
which reached number 14 in US Billboard (entered Oct 1949 run of 8 weeks).

27 Aug 2011

Candle in the wind 1997

CANDLE IN THE WIND IS NO. 1. It's in the Guinness book of world records. CHECK YOUR FACTS GET A TEAM TO HELP YOU STOP FIGURING OUT THIS BY YOURSELF

The fact you put your message in caps tells everyone all they need to know

1 May 2011

Sean Combs

Doesn't Sean Combs have enough hits to be listed if you combine Puff Daddy andP. Diddy?

We didn't associate "Sean Combs", "Puff Daddy", "Diddy" and "P Diddy"
together. From what we see in the Wikipedia article about him your
suggestion is justified. We will credit all his songs and albums to "P Diddy"
and insert a note on his artist page.

Thanks for the suggestion

4 Apr 2011

About your information

First, my congratulations. Yours is a great, very very great work. Second, I
arrived here because watching Wikipedia I saw that they write about songs that
charted before 1940, and I didn't know where they find that information until
I saw today your FANTASTIC page.

Now I have a question to you: WHERE did you find all that information, about
early years like 1930's 20's 10's 1900's and 1890's? And just for curiosity,
where are you from and why do you decide to do this category in this web?

Nice to meet your page, helps me a lot to know new music of old years. Takecare
from Spain.

The sources for all our information are listed in the "Song Charts" and
"Album Charts" pages. For example the Billboard data, starting in 1897,
can be downloaded from a group called "Bullfrog" that have been working
on it for some time.

Most of us are from the UK, we've been gathering and discussing chart lists
for many years. Steve built some software to consolidate the US and UK singles
charts in 2003, for his own private use, we convinced him to share the results,
first with us and then with the world. Of course we've also expanded the number
of sources since then as well.

Thanks for the encouragement

29 Dec 2010

Wikipedia

Hello, great site, currently used some of the chart info for
wikipedia however some other contributors believe this
site is not a valid source of chart positions. Any way I
can prove this site is valid, what sources does this site
use? Thanks.

All the charts used on the site are listed on the
"Song Charts" page (or "Album Charts" page), most of
them linked to original sources.

We have seen some places where people claim that
the data quoted here is invalid. Usually such comments
have come from sources that don't provide any
better data and often claim that "my private data shows
the tsort site is wrong" and then when asked refuse to share that
data or say where it came from.

If anyone makes a constructive suggestion we will normally
consider it. We can do little about the people on the internet
that feel it is easier to criticise our site anonymously than
to offer suggestions to us for how to improve it.

There are also fans of particular
artists who believe it is valid to assert "your site says my
artist had fewer hits than a rival, therefore it is wrong",
there is little we can do (or wish to do) to break their
self delusion.

We've not seen anyone on Wikipedia claim that our data is wrong
and should not be used. If you know of a page where that is being
claimed we'd like to know about it so we can contribute to the
discussion. There are many Wikipedia pages that do use this data,
anyone saying you shouldn't is, we suspect, in the minority.

Our position is that a link on each artist's Wikipedia
discography page to the matching page here would be helpful
to most Wikipedia users. Of course Wikipedia's "Conflict of
Interests" rules mean that we wouldn't add such links ourselves.

Of course the suitability of this data for use on Wikipedia varies,
for example the description of the "Global" chart explains why
that data shouldn't be quoted there. The charts from Poland, France
and Brazil should probably not be used, but the US, UK and Australian
charts are definitely the best available.

6 Sep 2010

About the site

I have to congratulate to you all for this great work. Very impressed

11 Jul 2010

need a COPY

NEED A COPY OF MARTY WILDE "SEA OF LOVE" ANY ONE HELP ME ? PLEASE

We don't have any music files here, just chart listings.

You could buy it at iTunes or Amazon. As an example
(since you are in the UK) the Amazon Mp3 Download shop
has it at: